Wichita leaders gathered Saturday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the newly remodeled Chester I. Lewis Reflection Square Park at 205 East Douglas.
The downtown park is named in the honor of civil rights leader Chester I. Lewis, who served on the legal team that argued the landmark 1954 Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case that ended segregation in schools. Lewis also took part in the Dockum drug store sit-in civil rights protest in 1958.
Local artist Ellamonique Baccus and New York artist Matthew Mazzotta worked on the design for the park.
The bronze lunch counter sculpture commemorating the Dockum sit-in was moved to a storage facility and it will be installed later at Finlay Ross Park.
